This country has had at least 5 military coups since 1929.
What is Turkey?
100
Of the countries we have studied, it consistently has the highest levels of income inequality.
What is Brazil?
100
Its constitution is "unwritten."
What is the UK?
100
The far right French party that has garnered recent success.
What is National Front?
100
A governing arrangement in which 2 or more parties agree (formally or informally) to share political power.
What is a coalition government?
200
Of the countries we have studied this year, these are the only TWO that have NOT experienced a revolution or military coup in the past 75 years.
What are the UK and Mexico?
200
Arising from 1945 and lasting until 1979, in this period all major UK political parties agreed that state should govern the economy and support a welfare state.
What is the collectivist consensus?
200
The office that Recep Tayyip Erdogan will seek in August, and why he wants it.
What is the President of Turkey, the office to which he intends to shift constitutional authority in order to perpetuate his rule?
200
The subnational political party spearheading the breakup of the UK.
What is the Scottish National Party?
200
SMD-FPP.
What is a system in which one member is elected from each district if he secures a plurality of votes?
300
The Revolutionary Guard
What is the Iranian paramilitary unit that serves at the direction of the Supreme Leader, protects the regime from internal and external enemies, and manages a significant sector of the Iranian economy?
300
This term refers to state that derives a large percentage of its revenues from the extraction of natural resources.
What is a rentier state?
300
The best explanation for the executive power of the 5th Republic of France.
What is Charles De Gaulle's influence on the document, which followed the collapse of the 4th Republic by military "coup of memorandum?"
300
Of the countries we have studied this year, these have the weakest party system.
What are Brazil and Iran?
300
A governing strategy in which political powers seek to satisfy the interests of labour unions, big business, agriculture, and landowners in exchange for relatively uncontested control over government.
What is a corporatist state?
400
The French Fifth Republic was born from a crisis with this French colony.
What is Algeria?
400
A philosophy that embraces free trade, weak unions
trimming the welfare state, foreign investment and monetarism. The bottom line market forces create healthy economies; this is a a species of “laissez-faire” philosophy.
What is economic neoliberalism?
400
The chief causes for the historical weakness of the Mexican Congress.
What are the dominance of the President, the weakness of the party system (PRI rule), term limits, and corrupt clientelist politics?
400
The current governing party (unified government) of France.
What is the Sociality Party (PS)?
400
A regime in which the state controls all aspects of public life, including the media, education, political life, etc. Often accompanied by democide.
What is a totalitarian government?
500
Bureaucratic Authoritarianism (BA)
What is the system of government employed in Brazil (from 1964-1988) and other Latin American countries, in which the military combines with key civilians to respond to perceived crises--usually with a massive bureaucracy ultimately directed by the military?
500
Significant corruption attends:
(a) Import Substituting Industrialization (ISI)
(b) Corporatist States
(d) Bureaucratic Rings
(e) Clientelism
(f) dirigisme
(g) all of the above
What is g (all of the above)?
500
This is a list of major Iranian political institutions, in descending order of power.
What is: the Supreme Leader, the Expediency Council, the Guardian Council, The President, the Assembly of Experts, and the Majles?
500
These parties are the official opposition parties of the UK and France.
What are Labour (UK) and UMP (France)?
500
The three main features of the Westminster System.
What are (a) PARLIAMENTARY SOVEREIGNTY [unitary state,
fusion of powers, constitutional monarchy], (b) PARLIAMENTARY DEMOCRACY [motion of no confidence], and (c) CABINET GOVERNMENT [collective responsibility]?